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[[Tedium]] describes any activity which, when you stand back and look at it, serves no [[Substance|real purpose]], however ''[[form]]ally'' emollient it may feel. Given how utterly pervasive it is in modern corporate life, it is extraordinary no more research has been done into what tedium is and why we are obliged to endure it. | [[Tedium]] describes any activity which, when you stand back and look at it, serves no [[Substance|real purpose]], however ''[[form]]ally'' emollient it may feel. Given how utterly pervasive it is in modern corporate life, it is extraordinary no more research has been done into what tedium is and why we are obliged to endure it. | ||
If, as a young clerk, re-dating a stack of trust deeds at 3 in the morning after a bished execution<ref>You may think this | If, as a young clerk, re-dating a stack of trust deeds at 3 in the morning after a bished execution<ref>You may think this has the searing scar of verisimilitude about it. You would be right.</ref>, you have ever regarded the clock, shaken your head and asked yourself, “is there ''really'' no better way to do this?” then you have looked into the tedial [[abyss]]. [[Abyss|Careful, lest it looks back into you]]. | ||
===''Superficial'' tedium versus ''intrinsic'' tedium=== | ===''Superficial'' tedium versus ''intrinsic'' tedium=== | ||